Masked white nationalists marched in DC this weekend and... did it even make a blip in the news cycle? I see one Reuters article, an article and some pics from a local CBS affiliate, and that's about it?
SPLC's description of this group:
Photos of the Neo Nazi protest in Washington DC today... Members of the Patriot Front marched from the National Mall, past the Capitol, ending near Union Station. Patriot Front is run by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who founded the group in 2017, as a teenager. @WUSA9 @washingtonpost
https://twitter.com/MikevWUSA
NEW — Neo Nazi leader who marched group through Washington DC RESPONDS:
"We organized the march to symbolically reclaim our nation's capital from the Jews, Marxists, & anti-white enemies in government who want to see white Americans erased"
https://twitter.com/MikevWUSA
NEW — Neo Nazi leader who marched group through Washington DC RESPONDS:
"We organized the march to symbolically reclaim our nation's capital from the Jews, Marxists, & anti-white enemies in government who want to see white Americans erased"
A march by the white nationalist group Patriot Front was done near Union Station in Washington around 4 p.m. on Saturday.
The members of Patriot Front that were marching shouted, "Reclaim America" as they moved down the streets of D.C. The group would later end their march at a Walmart in the Union Station area, as some onlookers called them cowards, said WUSA9's Mike Valerio.
Those marching wore similar long-sleeve clothing, with hats, masks, sunglasses and American flags. They were trailed and surrounded by police officers who were there to de-escalate any issues that arose.
The group, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is an image-obsessed organization that rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism.
The SPLC added that Patriot Front focuses on "theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country."
White Nationalist march in DC near Union Station on Saturday
The protest ran near Union Station in D.C., as the group made its way into this Walmart parking lot where the march later ended.
www.wusa9.com
They were accompanied by dozens of police, some on bicycles, but it was unclear whether the group had obtained a permit for the march. A spokeswoman for District of Columbia Metropolitan Police said it had no record of a permit for the march. Capitol Police and the National Park Service could not immediately be reached for comment.
Masked white nationalists march in Washington with police escort
Police escorted masked members of a white nationalist group on a march through Washington's National Mall on Saturday that Metropolitan Police said occurred without incident or arrests.
www.reuters.com
A White Nationalist Group Marches Through Washington and, Surprising to Nobody Black, Everyone Seems Perfectly Fine With It
America is white nationalism.
www.theroot.com
"Patriot Front" and the "[snip]" website are the brainchild of a cluster of Texas-based neo-Nazis who created their new entity — a blend of traditional white-supremacist ideology, alt-right sensibilities and activism, and militia-style armed insurrection — as a result of internecine quarreling within their original organization, Vanguard America (VA), in Charlottesville, Virginia, this summer, when one of their marchers drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and maiming 19.
The leader of Patriot Front is an 18-year-old Texas man named Thomas Rousseau, who became radicalized as a teenager at online forums such as [snip] and other alt-right forums where neo-Nazi ideology was exchanged freely. Rousseau formed Patriot Front in late August as a spinoff group dedicated to bringing white nationalists together under an activist banner.
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